Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a pastel scarf. His hair is auburn and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. His first spouse was a Priest, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has no hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Amethyst (90 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). White pearl (90 gp).

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'7" when asserting herself. With wild red hair. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She is a Chromatic Dragon in disguise. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: White pearl (120 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Amber (120 gp). Eye agate (8 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Shipwright. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shipwright work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shipwright work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and balancing his hectic life and new shipwright responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.